Science Fiction

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Was a recommendation on the R site.

Complex, eon spanning, hard sci-fi. I'm loving it!

I'm rereading Asimov's complete saga in "internal story chronological order":

1. I, Robot / The Complete Robot (except 'Mirror Image'!) [ROBOTS]

2. The Caves of Steel [ROBOTS]

3. The Naked Sun [ROBOTS]

4. Mirror Image (short story) [ROBOTS]

5. The Robots of Dawn [ROBOTS]

6. Robots and Empire [ROBOTS]

7. The Stars, Like Dust-- [EMPIRE]

8. The Currents of Space [EMPIRE]

9. Pebble in the Sky [EMPIRE]

10. Prelude to Foundation [FOUNDATION]

11. Forward the Foundation [FOUNDATION]

12. Foundation [FOUNDATION]

13. Foundation and Empire [FOUNDATION]

14. Second Foundation [FOUNDATION]

15. Foundation's Edge [FOUNDATION]

16. Foundation and Earth [FOUNDATION]

I'm currently on "Forward the foundation"

I listened to the 2nd and 3rd books of the Murderbot series on a car ride recently. I had read them before, but it was the first time that he did. I really enjoyed laughing with him.

Just finished The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin and going to look for a library where I can buy the next book in the Hain cycle !

I've been working through The Expanse books, and have just started Leviathan Falls.

Working my way through some Hugo winners past— reading A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M Miller.

Not science fiction, but I’m loving Carl Sagans “The Demon-Haunted World”. He really was a brilliant dude.

I'm really trying to read Three Body Problem, but I'm having a hard time following

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine.

I really loved the first book in the series, A Memory Called Empire, but I find the second one harder to get through. The writing really gets into the protagonist's head, and with all the stress she's in, it gets... claustrophobic, I guess, for me. I wish there was a bit more focus on the plot about the cool mysterious aliens.

Just ended with 'Children of Time' by Adrian Tchaikovsky and will now start 'Children of Ruin' (the second in the series). I liked it a lot,... the gist of it:

• Humans terraform planets
• Humans want 'crispr' intelligent apes
• Humans kill each other
• Crispr can't find apes,.. uses spiders instead
• Other Humans come eons later and find intelligent spiders

The story is told through the eyes of the spiders and the surviving humans and how they try to communicate, think in different terms, fight for the last habitable planet,....

Currently reading “The Exiled Fleet” by J. S. Dewes. This is the second in her “The Divide” series. It is pretty good. I picked up the first book because she did a release event with Scalzi during that time we were all locked in our homes and the story sounded interesting. The first one was compelling enough for me to see the series through although she has not announced the publication of the third book yet and has just released a standalone novel unrelated to the series.

I'm reading Nemesis by Isaac Asimov, slow (not much time to read) but steady.

Currently I'm reading the Space Odyssey series by Arthur C. Clark

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Wild book. 3rd in the series. Not finished yet but the first two were incredible.

"The complete robot" by Isaac Asimov.

I just finished up a first time read of Wheel of Time series. Solid 8 months of reading but 100% worth it. Mat Cauthon is my second favorite character ever written I think.

Wool was great! The rest of the series too. I've been watching the show and I think they did a pretty good adaptation with it.

Currently reading "This is How you Lose the Time-war". Just started it but it's an interesting concept and different from my usual sci-fi reads

Reading Noor right now. Very enjoyable and it will be quick read.

I'm on Tiamats Wake in the Expanse series, love it

I have a couple things on deck:

• Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryka Aoki - I've seen this one recommended several times, and finally decided to give it a spin.
• 36 Streets - T.R. Napper - A more title, but something to hopefully give me a bit of a noir fix.

Wool was great. And the show was good too. You can basically watch the first season after finishing Wool, if you’d like.

I’m reading He Who Fights With Monsters but I’m going to dig through this thread and find a good scifi novel to read next!

I'm currently nostalgia-reading Robert Rankin's Dance Of The Voodoo Handbag but that's more far fetched fiction than sci-fi. Silly, entertaining and lots of tall tales. I'm also reading The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken. I was hoping for it to be the start of a good series of books to read over the summer but it's not very good. I will probably not bother with the rest of the series.

Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson. Book 3 in the Words of Radiance series.

I'm on the last book of the riftwat-series by Raymond E Feist. Truly a masterpiece, even some 30-odd books into it.

I’m working my way through both the Murderbot Diaries (just started Network Effect) and the Rivers of London series (just finished Broken Homes, though this series is more urban fantasy). Both and very enjoyable!

Just finished Inversions by Iain M Banks. Classic series. Stupendous world building.

Broken Earth Trilogy. I finished reading the entire Wool series many years back and gave it a 3.5/5. Really strong start but unfortunately the pacing for the rest of it wasn't quite to my liking.

Currently reading Foundation and Earth by Asimov, I absolutely loved the original trilogy so I’ve been reading through the sequels and plan on going back to the prequels after. In my opinion the sequels have a big shift in pacing and sort of the way that the plot develops… not sure how I feel about that. On one hand it is easier to keep up with with less characters, but on the other it feels like the scale of things is much smaller. Trying to not spoil anything. The series is a fantastic read nevertheless!

My girlfriend and I are listening to The Foundation right now, it's wild how much material is based directly on that book.

@[email protected] Wool is really good, I read the first few and it stuck with me as a decent sci-fi setting. Unfortunately it's YA roots show the longer into the series you get.

For We Are Many Bobiverse book 2

I'm currently reading Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, which is the first book of the Expanse series. I haven't watched the TV series, since I wanted to dive into the books without previous knowledge.

I'm currently reading Chibola Burn, the forth book in The Expanse series. Really enjoying it, specially since the third one was my least favorite of the first three. So it feels good to be loving a book in the series again.

I would recommend the series to fans of somewhat believable sci-fi.

I'm reading Children of Ruin, the second book of the Children of Time series. I blasted through the first book in less than a week. First time I've read Tchaikovsky and I love it.

Surface Detail, and The State of the Art by Iain M Banks. Been on a Culture bend recently. Excession is next on my list

Terry Pratchett's books on Discworld 📖

I'm almost done the Lords of Uncreation which is book 3 of The Final Architecture. Quite the epic space opera. Then I will pick up Wool as season 1 of the TV series will be concluded.

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. First forray into his books. So far very enjoyable.

I am currently reading "Wool - Silo, book 1" by Hugh Howey. It's an incredible post-apocalyptic story about a fully functioning society that resides inside a massive silo. Nobody can venture outside due to the toxic environment outside that make survival impossible, even with protective clothing.

I just finished "peripheral" and "agency" by William Gibson. So much better than (already fun) tv show.

Currently I'm re-reading some of early Neal Stephenson, starting with "the diamond age, or young lady's illustrated primer". I've originally read it while still learning English, so now I can fully appreciate not just the story but Stephenson's wordcraft.

House of Leaves. Although I'm struggling because I haven't read a physical book in years and I can't bring it everywhere like I can my Leaf 2.